Culinary beater.



W. A. HANNA.

CULINARY BEATER.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 13, 1910.

1,001,949. Patented Aug. 29, 1911.

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CULINARY BEATER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 29, 1911.

Application filed January 13, 1910. Serial No. 537,885.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. IIANNA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Del Norte, in the county of Rio Grande, State of Colorado, have invented certain new and. useful Improvements in Culinary Beaters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to culinary heaters; and has for its object to provide a simple, cheap and eflicient device for heating or whipping cream to a foam, eggs and other substances in a rapid and thorough manner, and to this end, it comprises a suitable receptacle containing stirrers or heaters oper ated by gearing mounted on a frame removably attached to said receptacle for the purpose of separating the parts to be cleaned.

With this object in view, the invention consists of the construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of the beater; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same, looking in the direction of the arrow A, Fig. 1, showing the frame separated from the receptacle, and Fig. 3, a cross sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4: is a top plan view.

Similar referencecharacters are used for r the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, 1 indicates a receptacle in which cream, eggs or other substances to be operated upon are placed. This receptacle may be made of sheet metal, glass, porcelain or other suitable material, but as shown in the drawings, it consists of a cylindrical metal vessel provided with a closure 2 at the top and an exterior pocket 3 on each side of the receptacle diametrically disposed and opening upwardly into which pockets, the lower tapered ends 41 of an inverted U- shaped frame are placed. The pockets 3 are preferably tapered at the same angle as the lower ends of the frame 5, so that the latter, when inserted therein may be forced downwardly and be held rigidly by frictional contact between the ends 4 and the interior of the pockets.

Mounted to turn in the upper end of the frame 5 is a horizontal shaft 6 having a crank 7 midway its length and a small gear wheel 8 fastened on one end outside the frame 5. Projecting from the same side of the frame is a short stud 9, on which is rotatably mounted a large gear wheel 10, held thereon by a pin'll, said gear wheel 10 meshing with the smaller gear wheel 8, to rotate the shaft when the larger wheel 10 is turned by a handle 12 projecting therefrom.

Pivotally connected to the crank 7 is a connecting rod 13 jointed at its lower end to a vertical rod 14 which extends through the closure 2 into the receptacle 1 nearly to the bottom thereof. A beater or stirrer 15 is journaled on the lower end of the vertical rod 14, while a short distance above, is a flat perforated plate 16 fixed on said rod 14, andreaching nearly to the walls of the receptacle 1. The agitator or stirrer 15 comprises a hub 17 through which the rod 14; passes and a plurality of wings or blades 18, projecting radially in a horizontal direction and inclined on their own axes. Each blade is perforated, as shown, for more readily accomplishing the object sought.

If it be desired to whip a quantity of cream to a foam, it is poured into the receptacle after removing the closure 2 for that purpose and the gear wheel 10 turned by means of the crank 12. Motion is communicated through the parts shown to the rod 14, which is moved rapidly in a vertical direction carrying with it the agitator 15, and the perforated plate 16, which stir the cream and thoroughly aerate it, thereby causing the particles of cream to break up and imprison the air forced through them, which assumes the well-known globular form of all foaming substances. The reciprocating movement imparted by the rod 14 to the agitator 15 causes the latter to rotate on said rod, because of the angular position of the blades 18; the combined rotary and reciprocatory movements therefore increase the rapidity with which the cream is brought to the condition desired. The perforations in the plate 16, and the blades of the agitator enable these parts to pass through the cream more rapidly and with better effect for foaming it than if they were solid, causing less resistance, and therefore easier operation. After using the device, the frame 5 may be withdrawn from the pockets 4, and the parts thoroughly cleaned. If desired, the

pin 19 uniting the vertical rod 14 and the connecting rod 13 may be removed to enable the cleaning operation to be more quicklyreceptacle 1 whereby the vertical reciproeating rod 1 1 is properly guided to hold the angularly and radially arranged blades 15 out of contact with said receptacle.

That is claimed is:

A beater comprising a receptacle, a frame forming a part of the same, a crank-shaft journaled in said frame, means for rotating said shaft, a vertical reciprocating rod operated by said crank shaft, a plurality of angularly and radially disposed blades secured to the lower end of the rod, and a perforated flat circular'plate also secured to the rod above the blades and of a size to freely move in said receptacle whereby said rod is 20 properly guided in its movement and the blades held out of contact with the receptacle.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM A. HANNA.

Witnesses:

VILLIAM B. VATES, A. H. ARTHUR.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

